1 – First, the poverty of having more than enough, always wanting more, never being satisfied, and yet still feeling so empty. This is the poverty I see in most of America. A poverty of searching.

2 – The poverty of struggling each and every day for the right to survive. In this type of poverty people not only have a lack of hope…but they don’t even realize that there is such a thing as hope, that there is another way for them to live. These poor are too busy trying to save themselves, their children, and their friends from starvation to look for a way out.

3 – This is the worst poverty of all. The poverty of a life that has not found salvation in the loving arms of God.